AADL Talks To: Bill Ayers
Bill Ayers is a retired Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. During his time in Ann Arbor during the 1960s, he served as director of Ann Arbor's experimental Children's Community School; Education Secretary for the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); and co-founder of the militant Weather Underground organization, which originated in Ann Arbor in 1969 as a far left-wing revolutionary party.
Ayers traces the path of his political awakening from wide-eyed college freshman to seasoned student organizer and educator. He reflects on the tumultuous moral dilemma he and many activists faced as the Vietnam War raged on in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He discusses the factionalism within the SDS leadership that resulted in the formation of the Weather Underground; how the strands of student activism during this turbulent time were rooted in the moral agenda outlined by Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.; and his lifelong pedagogic commitment to education.
William Ayers In School Race
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Subpoenaed News Film Features Talk With Ayers
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School To Get $11,250 Grant
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Bill Ayers, director of Children's Community School, May 1968 Photographer: Eck Stanger
Year:
1968
Ann Arbor News, May 14, 1968
Caption:
Seeks Post: William Ayers, the 23-year-old director of an experimental school for children, is a candidate in the June 10 school board election. Ayers, a city resident for five years, is director of the Children's Community, a school for children from four to eight years of age. Ayers' formal announcement of candidacy appeared in Friday's edition of The News.
Children's Community School
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